New architecture and design competitions: ASLA Professional Awards, Mass Timber Innovation & Design Center of Canada, Vilnius Congress Center, and Rifat Chadirji Prize

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are featuring four calls seeking the most accomplished work in landscape architecture, design concepts for the future Vilnius Congress Center in Lithuania, visions for an advanced timber structure in Vancouver, and proposals for a landscape-led recovery vision for Sahl Al Khiam in Southern Lebanon.

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ASLA 2026 Professional Awards
Registration/Submission Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026

"The ASLA Professional Awards represent the profession’s highest recognition for project-based achievement. Submissions reflect the breadth of professional practice, including residential, urban, and large-scale public work, as well as projects grounded in analysis, planning, research, and communications. Winning entries demonstrate design quality, innovation, and measurable impact, as selected by esteemed juries."

Vilnius Congress Centre Architectural Design Competition
Registration/Submission Deadline: Monday, March 16, 2026

"Vilnius has launched an open international architectural competition to select the design concept for the future Vilnius Congress Centre, a flagship venue aimed at transforming the city’s competitiveness in the global meetings and events market. Proposals are invited until 16 March 2026, with a total prize fund of 100 000 euros. The winning concept will form the basis for a next-generation congress centre planned for completion at the end of 2031 on A. Goštauto street, next to the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania."

Mass Timber Innovation and Design Center of Canada
Registration/Submission Deadline: Sunday, June 21, 2026

"Design Unlimited launches the Mass Timber Innovation & Design Center of Canada, an international architecture competition supported by leading voices in timber research and construction. The project seeks visions for an advanced timber structure through design research, prototyping, and public exhibition—a habitat-sensitive, high-performance campus woven into Stanley Park’s meadows, forests, and trail network."

Rifat Chadirji Prize 2026: The Right to Landscape Reclaiming Land and Sustaining Lives in Sahl Al Khiam, Lebanon
Registration Deadline: Thursday, July 30, 2026
Submission Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2026

"The Rifat Chadirji Award invites landscape architects, architects, and urban planners worldwide to propose a landscape led recovery vision for Sahl Al Khiam in Southern Lebanon. The valley, an agricultural lifeline endured occupation and recurrent bombardment, remains vital to the livelihoods, ecology, and identity of the Khiam community. Despite extensive damage, the Sahl survives as a rare space of continuity and refuge."

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